August 26, 2025 — In the top ranks of the most watched shows on Netflix now is a documentary describing 18 seasons of exploitation on The Biggest Loser. For the folks who ran the original show, it generated hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars in revenue. For the folks who opened themselves up to exploitation on the […]
September 4, 2014 — Two recent publications draw our attention to the need for a more complete understanding of the mechanisms that link trauma, abuse, and obesity. In an analysis of 23 studies of 112,708 subjects, Erik Hemmingsson and colleagues found an increased risk of obesity in adulthood for people who experienced abuse in childhood. The overall increase was 34%, […]
May 10, 2013 — A new book by Mika Brzezinski and a new study have put food addiction in the spotlight this week. Researchers from the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health published a study in Obesity this week, finding a 90% increase in the risk of food addiction for women who experienced physical or sexual abuse […]
